What Does cPanel Hosting Signify?

For your info, it's good to know that most of the cPanel hosting offerings on the present web hosting marketplace are furnished by a quite insignificant marketing niche (when it comes to annual money flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small marketing niche, which supplies an immense number of different web hosting brands, yet supplying strictly the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the website hosting offers on the entire hosting market furnish precisely the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting price tags are identical. Quite similar. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel option. So, there is simply one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, mind that one...

200,000 "hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled

The hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us come down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different website hosting brand names. Assume you are simply a normal chap who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the site creation procedures and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domains and websites. Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web hosting alternative you can select? Of course there is, these days there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting vendors in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique hosting brands across the world will give you exactly the same cPanel Control Panel and platform, named differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the diversity on the present web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a big stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and presumably answered most web hosting industry requirements. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Predicament No.1: A moronic domain name folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be ultra watchful not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to remove on the web server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Verify for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain folder configuration is:

Are you growing perplexed? We categorically are!

Weakness Number 2: The same email folder system

The mail folder configuration on the server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin chaps firmly reinforce their faith in God when coping with the email folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to screw things up too gravely.

Negative Point Number Three: An absolute shortage of domain administration menus

Do we need to refer to the total deficiency of a contemporary domain management user interface - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domains, alter domains' Whois info, shield the Whois info, change/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a huge shortcoming. An unforgettable one, we want to point out...

Weak Side Number Four: Numerous login places (min two, maximum three)

How about the necessity for an additional login to avail of the billing transaction, domain name and tech support administration software? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel hosting provider. Now and then, on the basis of the invoicing transaction system (particularly designed for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel hosting supplier is availing of, the ardent clients can end up with two additional login places (1: the billing transaction/domain name management menu; 2: the ticket support software), winding up with a total of three user login places (including cPanel).

Problem Number 5: More than 120 website hosting CP sections to learn... promptly

cPanel offers to your attention 120+ departments inside the web hosting CP. It's a fantastic idea to get acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better grasp them briskly... That's very impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel hosting firms:

As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one as well...